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"It's not personal, and it's not business
This is a big one (that is why I put it first). A university isn't a business in the normal sense. Oh sure, they bring in money and they spend money. From the outside, it is easy to mistake it for a business but it isn't. But don't universities produce students? Well, the outcome is to have students, but that is not really the purpose. What nonsense do I speak? Let me just say what a university should be. It should be a community of learners. That is it. All this grades and graduation stuff just gets in the way. It distracts us from a our real mission - learning (all of us)." -
In other news, productivity among published authors dipped to a record low this week...
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"Why is it important that we have trapped antimatter?"
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